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Key facts
- Country
- Benin
- Capital
- Lokossa
- Total
- 1,605 km (620 sq mi)
- Density
- 308.6/km (799.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( WAT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Benin
- Country
- Benin
- Located in
- Benin
- Contains
- Lokossa
- Capital
- Lokossa
- Area
- 1605.0
- Shares border with
- Atlantique Department
- Official website
- www.gouv.bj/content/le-departement-du-mono
- Image
- Maison des jeunes de Koudo dans le Mono au Bénin 01.jpg
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- language used
- Phla
- topic's main category
- Category:Mono Department
- Commons category
- Mono Department
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Encyclopedic overview
Mono ([mo.no]) is one of the twelve departments of Benin, with its capital at Lokossa. It is named for the Mono River which forms much of the border with Togo. The northern areas of the department were split off to create the newly formed Kouffo Department in 1999. Mono is subdivided into six communes, each centred at one of the principal towns, namely, Athiémè, Bopa, Comè, Grand-Popo, Houéyogbé and Lokossa. It has an area of 1,396 square kilometres (539 sq mi).
As of 2013, the total population of the department was 497,243, with 241,554 males and 255,689 females. The proportion of women was 51.40%. The total rural population was 50.30%, while the urban population was 49.70%. The total labour force in the department was 142,220, of which 48.60% were women. The proportion of households with no level of education was 48.70%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mono Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.